| Re: [cdt-dev] CDT Kepler on top of Eclipse Juno |
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Hey Martin,
We talked about this during the CDT call and decided that this was probably OK. I don't think we want to support it as a first class citizen, tough, since the vast majority of user testing will be with the Kepler EPP package. But we will endeavour to fix
anything that breaks compatibility with 3.8.
The only area we were concerned about is if Pawel is working on anything new in the Platform Debug that we would need to adopt in Kepler. But given it's you who's asking we're assuming that that is not the case?
Doug.
From: <Oberhuber>, Martin <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Monday, 4 February, 2013 8:31 AM To: "cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx" <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [cdt-dev] CDT Kepler on top of Eclipse Juno Dear CDT Committers, We are interested in keeping the CDT 8.2 (Kepler) release compatible with last year’s
Eclipse Juno (4.2.2 and 3.8.2). The Eclipse Platform API has remained mostly unchanged since Juno, so the cost of this should be small – just one additional Hudson Verification Job to test CDT master against
Platform Juno every once in a while. On the other hand, we would become a lot more flexible, by being able to deploy new
CDT into older Eclipse (after all, Juno is the designated long-term support
stream, so some large companies are expected to stay on Eclipse Juno). A number of other Eclipse projects officially support the current Eclipse Platform as well as some older releases (N-1 or even N-2), most notably Mylyn and egit. WTP makes it very clear: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=webtools#themes_and_priorities Would the CDT community support this approach, or are there any concerns ? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Oberhuber, SMTS / Product Architect – Development
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